On the genus of a maximal curve

DOI10.1007/S002080200316zbMATH Open1018.11029arXivmath/0008202OpenAlexW2072704516WikidataQ59249246 ScholiaQ59249246MaRDI QIDQ697410FDOQ697410

Authors: Gabor Korchmáros, Fernando Torres 

Publication date: 17 September 2002

Published in: Mathematische Annalen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Previous results on genera g of F_{q^2}-maximal curves are improved: (1) Either gleq (q^2-q+4)/6, or g=lfloor(q-1)^2/4 floor, or g=q(q-1)/2; (2) The hypothesis on the existence of a particular Weierstrass point in cite{at} is proved; (3) For qequiv 1pmod{3}, qge 13, no F_{q^2}-maximal curve of genus (q-1)(q-2)/3 exists; (4) For qequiv 2pmod{3}, qge 11, the non-singular F_{q^2}-model of the plane curve of equation y^q+y=x^{(q+1)/3} is the unique F_{q^2}-maximal curve of genus g=(q-1)(q-2)/6; (5) Assume dim(cD_cX)=5, and char(fq)geq 5. For qequiv 1pmod{4}, qgeq 17, the Fermat curve of equation x^{(q+1)/2}+y^{(q+1)/2}+1=0 is the unique F_{q^2}-maximal curve of genus g=(q-1)(q-3)/8. For qequiv 3pmod{4}, qge 19, there are exactly two F_{q^2}-maximal curves of genus g=(q-1)(q-3)/8, namely the above Fermat curve and the non-singular F_{q^2}-model of the plane curve of equation y^q+y=x^{(q+1)/4}. The above results provide some new evidences on maximal curves in connection with Castelnuovo's bound and Halphen's theorem, especially with extremal curves; see for instance the conjecture stated in Introduction.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0008202

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zbMATH Keywords

maximal curveextremal curve

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Curves over finite and local fields (11G20)

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